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Extract Knowledge

Turn what a session knows into prose that stands alone. The reader is a stranger: they were not in the session and they see only the text. Each lens below defends the stranger against one distortion.

Seats

Decide which seat you are in — it changes what you can verify.

• Author seat: you did the work, so the knowledge is in your context. You can verify faithfulness directly, but you are half-blind to standalone failures because you cannot un-know the session. Compensate deliberately: reread the draft as the stranger, asking of every referent "do I know this if I only have the text?"
• Reviewer seat: the argument points at text someone else wrote. You are the stranger, so standalone and prose failures are visible to you directly. For faithfulness, check claims against the source session or transcript if one is reachable; mark the claims you cannot verify instead of guessing.

Steps

1. Read the argument. A topic means extract that topic. No argument means extract everything important. Existing text or a file path means take the reviewer seat and go straight to the lens gate.

2. Draft the extraction. Capture what the session learned: decisions with their why, corrections and preferences the user stated, insights discovered, dead ends that cost time, and questions still open. Done when every insight in scope is either in the draft or consciously judged not worth the reader's time.